[Doug Millison]

That is one element of the complex forces that Pynchon shows at work to
betray the New Left struggle. How do Brock and Frenesi get to be that way?
What pushes Pokler along his path?  What sends Slothrop on his quest? 

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From: Jane [mailto:lycidas2 at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:06 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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> [28] This relation between structure, desire, and inner
> fascism  seems to describe the political sadomasochism of Brock
> andFrenesi and to provide a theoretical context for the
>  catastrophes of the New Left in the late 60s.
> 
> >From   Cultural Trauma and the "Timeless Burst": Pynchon's
>                Revision of Nostalgia in _Vineland_[1]
> 
>                                   by
> 
>                              James Berger



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